Overview
- Critically explores the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis: its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding
- Prime among the issues at stake are the meaning and significance of birth, copulation, suffering, and death, expressed in debates regarding human embryo-experimentation and stem cell research, the character of moral and scientific norms, as well as more fundamentally, the character of an adequate epistemology for coming to appreciate the deep nature of reality and its normative implications.
Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture (PSCC, volume 12)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Metaphysics and epistemology: the foundations of culture and morality
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Cultural variations and moral casuistry
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A moral culture without metaphysics is empty
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About this book
The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In each case, the focus is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume critically explores the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis: its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding. Prime among the issues at stake are the meaning and significance of birth, copulation, suffering, and death, expressed in debates regarding human embryo-experimentation and stem cell research, the character of moral and scientific norms, as well as more fundamentally, the character of an adequate epistemology for coming to appreciate the deep nature of reality and its normative implications. Given varying background ontological, epistemological, and axiological presuppositions, different moral positions and political objections will appear as not merely morally permissible but as socially and politically obligatory.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Death of Metaphysics; The Death of Culture
Book Subtitle: Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Morality
Editors: Mark J. Cherry
Series Title: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4621-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4620-9Published: 28 June 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7155-2Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4621-6Published: 05 August 2006
Series ISSN: 0928-9518
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 280
Topics: Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Religion, Political Philosophy